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Say Yes to Education was a nonprofit organization focused on increasing high-school and post-secondary graduation rates for urban youth by providing student support services from kindergarten through high school and post-secondary scholarships to eligible students. It was formed in 1987 by hedge fund manager George Weiss.
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Protect Our Winters (POW) is a Colorado-based left-leaning climate advocacy group. It conducts political advocacy through an affiliated 501(c)(4) nonprofit, the Protect Our Winters Action Fund (POW AF). POW supports placing weather dependent wind and solar energy facilities on public lands, stating in an annual report that it
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No New Jails NYC is a now-defunct left-of-center activist group in New York City that sought to close the Rikers Island Prison and, instead of building new prisons, abolish incarceration altogether. It also sought to implement community and social-worker alternatives to law enforcement. Part of the group’s collapse seems to
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The Brooklyn Arts Council is a New York City-based nonprofit that specializes in funding and supporting the arts in Brooklyn. While the group does mostly fund artists, it does occasionally fund activist groups that produce arts such as a 2021 mural painted by the left-of-center criminal justice policy group
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The Bezos Family Foundation (BFF) is a nonprofit grantmaking foundation based in Seattle, Washington founded in 2000. 1
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The MacMillan Family Foundation (officially known as The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc.) is a grantmaking foundation focused on “cancer and medical research, education, and the arts.” 1 The Foundation also gives to some left-of-center organizations,
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Prism Reports, or Prism (formerly known as the Daily Kos Education Fund), is a left-of-center media outlet that was founded by the Daily Kos to provide reporting and editorial content on left-of-center and far-left political and cultural issues. The organization’s media platform promotes far-left political and cultural stances, including
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Person
Marc Rowan is co-founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management Inc. and has an estimated net worth of roughly $8 billion as of early February 2024. 1 A 1985 graduate of the University of
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Shari Redstone is an entertainment industry executive and president of National Amusements, chair of the board of Paramount Global, and co-managing partner of the venture capital firm Advancit Capital. Shari Redstone’s father, Sumner Redstone, became a multi-millionaire purchasing stock in entertainment companies and movie studios.
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NextEra Energy is the world’s largest utility company. It has a presence in 49 states and four Canadian provinces. 1 It has two principal business interests, Florida Power & Light Company and NextEra Energy Resources.
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The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust is a right-leaning watchdog organization. 1 The organization launched in 2012 as the Free Market American Educational Foundation.
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The Los Angeles Media Fund is an entertainment company founded by Jeffrey Soros, nephew of billionaire George Soros. 1 The Los Angeles Media Fund develops,
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Results for America is a policy advocacy group that aims to influence government workers and politicians to adopt programs it asserts will lead to more equitable outcomes. It subscribes to the left-of-center doctrine of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory-influenced concepts, such as systemic racism.
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Michael P. Polsky is the CEO and founder of Invenergy, which claims it is the “largest privately held global developer, owner and operator of renewable energy.”
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The Way to Win Action Fund (WWAF) is an affiliate of Way to Win, a left-of-center activism hub which also manages the Way to Lead PAC and Way to Rise, a left-of-center strategy group which directs funding from donors and institutions to local activists and political organizations.
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Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is a left-of-center research, analysis, advisory, and advocacy organization and think tank headquartered in San Fransico, California. The organization focuses on influencing finance, policy, and land use, particularly in areas of climate change and environmentalist practices.
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Chuck Feeney was an Irish-American billionaire businessman and philanthropist who made his money in duty-free retail and formed the Bermuda-based grantmaking organization Atlantic Philanthropies. Throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, Feeney anonymously gave away much of his fortune to schools, hospitals, and other philanthropic ventures in the United
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Non-profit
Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) is a left-of-center environmental organization that seeks to stop the building and expansion of any energy producing company or pipeline and only favors wind and solar as sources of power. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade has criticized President Joe Biden for making concessions to the oil
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Climate Cabinet Action (CCA), sometimes known as the Climate Cabinet Action Fund, is a social welfare group that seeks to “solve climate change” by building left-of-center climate policy-supporting legislative majorities at the state and local levels. The organization’s stated goal is to attain legislative majorities in 30 states, 300 counties,
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American Institute for Managing Diversity (AIMD) was a diversity-management organization focused on research, education, and advocacy. It was founded in 1984 by cultural diversity activist R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. It was considered the first national nonprofit founded for the study of diversity.
